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Winston

/ˈwɪn.stən/

Stately, two syllables, sounds like it has already handled it. Fifty-sixth among New York's dogs, who also think so.

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Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

English

MEANING

From an English surname, which could derive either from t…

POPULARITY

#405 for human boys, 2024

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

1,598 dogs in New York

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Origin and meaning

From an English surname, which could derive either from the Old English given name Wynnstan or from place names meaning 'town belonging to Wine'. Source: Behind the Name.

What we know

Stately, two syllables, sounds like it has already handled it. Fifty-sixth among New York's dogs, who also think so.

Popularity

Among human babies, Winston peaked in 2019 at 372nd for boys. In 2024 it ranked 405th, given to 797 boys. Among agents, 0 registered.

Charting: Winston

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Winston
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 1,598 dog licences in New York City, ranked 56th among dogs there, and on 56 in Seattle.

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